Akshita Nanda selected " Little Ironies : Stories of Singapore " as one of 10 classic Singapore books . " Catherine Lim's early short, sharp fiction describes the results of such social engineering ", she wrote, " a Singapore growing more cosmopolitan and Singaporeans losing touch with their roots . " Little Ironies " spotlights ordinary people at their best and worst, such as'The Taximan's Story', in which a cab driver is happy to make money off sex workers while looking down on them ."
